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This episode is the second of a three part special series about robot art with guest interviewer David St-Onge, an engineer working at the interface of visionary arts and creative science. David was our guest in previous episode with the Robots Podcast about robot art. He now brings us into his world through in-depth conversations with 6 world renowned experts in the field. In today's show, we talk to Bill Vorn from the University Concordia in Montreal and Louis-Philippe Demers from the Nanyang Technological University in Singapour. Both artists started their carreer together in Montreal where they worked on state of the art robotic projects for more than 10 years. One of their most famous projects, 'La cour des Miracles' can be seen below.
Bill Vorn
Bill Vorn is Professor at the Departement of Studio Art at Concordia University in Montreal, Canada where he directs a Robotic Art research-creation lab called "alab". He has been active in the field of Robotic Art since 1992 with peformances that build on motion control, sound, lighting, video and cybernetic processes and explore questions about artificial life. In this interview he tells us about art work that will make you think about what it means to be human through miserable robots or ones that laugh hysterically.
Vorn's work has been presented in multiple international events, including Ars Electronica, ISEA, DEAF, Sonar, Art Futura, EMAF and Artec. He has been awarded the Life 2.0 award (1999, Madrid), the Leprecon Award for Interactivity (1998, New York), the Prix Ars Electronica Distinction award (1996, Linz) and the International Digital Media Award (1996, Toronto). He has worked in collaboration with many canadian artists (including Edouard Lock, Robert Lepage, Gilles Maheu, LP Demers and Istvan Kantor) and was cofounder of the electronic pop music band Rational Youth with Tracy Howe in 1981.
Louis-Philippe Demers
Louis-Philippe Demers is Professor at the School of Art, Design and Media at the Nanyang Technological University (NTU) in Singapour. Before joining the NTU, he was the president of Kunst Macchina Production Company; a group specialized in the commercialization and the R&D of software solutions for the entertainment from 1994 to 1998. From 2001 to 2005, Demers was a Full Professor of Digital Media and Exhibit Design at the Hochschule fuer Gestaltung affiliated to the world renowned ZKM (Zentrum fuer Kunst und Medientechnologie).
Over the years, he has realized several large-scale interactive robotic installations and over 225 machines for the theatre, opera, subway stations, art museums, science museums, music events and trade shows. His collaborations include artists such as Bill Vorn, Christian Möller, Stelarc, Robert Lepage, Peter Gabriel and Le Cirque du Soleil.
His work has been primed with several prizes and featured at major international venues such as Lille 2004, Expo 92, Expo 2000, Sonambiente, ISEA, SIGGRAPH and Sonar. He received three Interactive Kunst prizes Ars Electronica (Distinction 96) and one honourable mention in digital musics in 2005. He received the first prize of artificial life Vida2.0 and the prize for Interactive Lighting at Lightforms 98. His latest work, Devolution, received six prizes in 2006 including the Ruby Innovation award in South Australia, Outstanding Performance from Australian Dance Awards and two Helpmann Awards, the Australian equivalent of the Broadway's Tony.
In this episode he'll be telling us about many of his artistic projects, including Tiller Girls, a group of 12 small autonomous robots shown in the video below.


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BARTOW | A Lakeland mother watched quietly as the man who police said had asked her teenage son to send him naked photos was booked into the Polk County Jail on Friday evening.
BARTOW | A Lakeland mother watched quietly as the man who police said had asked her teenage son to send him naked photos was booked into the Polk County Jail on Friday evening.
Anthony DeSilva, 41, of Acushnet, Mass., was arrested Wednesday in Massachusetts and charged with 10 counts of using a computer to seduce a child and one count of transmission of material harmful to a child. He was transported Friday to Polk County. He's accused of having sexually explicit conversations online with two Polk County teens and sending one of them a naked photo of himself.
Wearing black pants and a blue-and-black jacket, DeSilva held his head down and said nothing as he walked by a mob of news cameras. A group of spectators who were at the processing center shouted at DeSilva to raise his head, and others called him "nasty."
DeSilva is a coach for the Mass Maple Leafs Junior Hockey Club and works the night shift at a group home for developmentally challenged adults.
The teen's mother, who didn't want to give her name to protect her son's identity, spoke to reporters Friday evening and urged parents to be more vigilant of their children's online activity.
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She said DeSilva had a mutual friend with her son and was able to request his friendship. Her son accepted and within a couple days in July, she said DeSilva was having inappropriate conversations with her son. According to the arrest affidavit, DeSilva told the teen that he had a female friend who wanted to see a naked photo of him.
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She printed copies of the messages and took them to the Polk County Sheriff's Office. An undercover detective began using the teen's Facebook account to exchange Facebook messages, emails and text messages. At one point, DeSilva sent "the teen" a naked photo of himself and the conversations grew more sexually explicit, according to the arrest affidavit.
DeSilva also exchanged Face�book messages with one of the teen's friends and introduced himself by saying he was a baseball and hockey coach in Massachusetts, according to the affidavit. Deputies say conversations with the second teen from Polk County also grew sexually explicit.
DeSilva last updated his Face�book page on Wednesday, asking if any players were looking for a team.
The mother of the teen said she isn't angry with DeSilva and feels that there might be something wrong with him.
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I was diagnosed with HIV back in April of 2012. Since then I have been fighting my insurance company to pay for meds and lab work. In August I was diagnosed with AIDS. As of Dec 2012 my CD4 count was 170, absolute CD 4 percentage 20, viral load I believe was 50,000. I am still not closer to being able to get on medications and I am starting to get worried. I know that it is hard to give a definitive answer, but how much time do you think I might have to get everything straightened out bf I were to develop a life threatening complication. I have a history of epilepsy, asthma, cerebral palsy, scoliosis, mitral valve prolapse, kidney stones, depression and anxiety issues, and recently HPV. Could these conditions complicate treatment when I am finally able to start meds? I have looked into the Ryan White Program, Pharmaceutical companies, etc and haven't had any luck so far. My insurance company will only pay up to 20% of the cost of the medications.
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Hi and thanks for posting.
Sorry to hear about your situation. Do know that it's awfully important that you start on medications as soon as possible. With your CD4 count below 200, you meet lab benchmarks for AIDS- I'd hate to hear that you develop an AIDS complication while waiting to start on meds.
Your other medical conditions don't necessarily make HIV medications any less likely to work, though it seems probable that you could already be taking a lot of medications. We'd want to make sure that your ability to adhere to any additional medications for HIV doesn't overly complicate this.
If you've exhausted your conventional options to pay for medications (I'd ask your case manager or doctor to even make an appeal to the pharmaceutical companies programs- then sometimes can and do make exceptions to their standard qualification requirements for assistance), consider enrolling in a clinical trial- while not every clinical trial works best for every patient, if the match is right, the study can often provide free medications and laboratory testing for several years.
Hope that helps, and please feel free to write back, BY
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Dr. Young answered your questions about the effect of other medical conditions affecting your HIV treatment and the need to start medications excellently.
If your plan covers only 20% of prescription medications, I'm sorry you got stuck with such a poor plan. I don't know what state you live in, however, all states operate an AIDS Drug Assistance Program (ADAP) which is federally funded under Ryan White. The breadth and availability of the program varies dramatically depending on what state you live in. Contact a local AIDS Service Organization who can give you more information. You may also want to search for "ADAP and (name your state)" in a browser.
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Educational Background
- B.S. in Civil Engineering, Drexel University
- M.Eng. in Civil & Environmental Engineering, Cornell University
- Ph.D. in Civil & Environmental Engineering, Cornell University
Research Interests
- Biological conversion of waste materials to useful forms of energy, such as methane and hydrogen
- Life-cycle assessment of waste management technologies with emphasis on electricity consumption and greenhouse gas emissions
- Treatment of industrial pollutants
- Performance analysis and optimization of existing waste treatment facilities
- Biological degradation of xenobiotic compounds
Teaching Specialties
- Introduction to environmental engineering
- Environmental engineering biotechnology
- Exploring engineering
- Hazardous waste management
- Fluid mechanics
- Environmental engineering chemistry
- Environmental pollution and control
- Hazardous waste and society
Current Research
- Technical and economic evaluation of on-campus bioconversion of food waste to methane
- Bioconversion of waste materials to hydrogen and methane
- Biological removal of nitrogen from wastewaters
Selected Publications
DiStefano, T.D., A.Palomar. 2010. Effect of Reactor Configuration on Useful Energy Production from Anaerobic Biodegradation. Water Research. 44(8), 2583-2591.
Drennan, M.F., T.D. DiStefano. 2010. Characterization of the curing process from high-solids anaerobic digestion. Bioresource Technology. 101, 537-544.
DiStefano, T.D., L.G.Belenky. 2009. Life-cycle analysis of energy and greenhouse gas emissions from anaerobic biodegradation of municipal solid waste. J. Envir. Engrg. 35 (11), 1097-1105.
Vesilind, P.A., T.D.DiStefano. 2006. Controlling environmental pollution: an introduction to the technologies, history, and ethics. DEStech Publications, Lancaster, PA.
DiStefano, T.D., A.Ambulkar. 2006. Methane production and solids destruction in an anaerobic solid waste reactor due to post-reactor caustic and heat treatment. Water Science and Technology. Vol 53, No.8, pp. 33-41.
T.D. DiStefano, 2005. Use of a Respirometer to Analyze Anaerobic Biodegradation of Municipal Solid Waste. Presented at the 20th International Conference on Solid Waste Technology and Management. Phila, PA.
T.D. DiStefano, R.E. Speece and M.Hnatin, 2004. Evaluation of anaerobic process configuration on food waste and municipal solid waste. Presented at the 10th World Congress on Anaerobic Digestion, Montreal, Canada.
Puterbaugh,S., T.D. DiStefano. 2002. Preliminary Analysis of Hydrolysis and Acidification of Food Processing Waste. Presented at the Annual Pennsylvania Water Environment Association Conference. State College, PA.
DiStefano, T.D., M.Hantin. 2002. Evaluating anaerobic treatment for presorted food wastes, The BioCycle Guide to Anaerobic Digestion. The JG Press, Emmaus, PA. pp. 52-54.
DiStefano, T.D., M.Duran, R.E.Speece, M.Hnatin. 2001. Startup of an anaerobic biodegradation system for food processing waste and size reduced municipal solid waste. Presented at Solid Waste Association of North America (SWANA) 6th Annual Landfill Symposium. San Diego, CA.
DiStefano, T.D., Baral, R., Duran, M., and Speece, R.E. 2001. "A Comparison of Complex Electron Donors for Anaerobic Dechlorination of PCE." Bioremediation Journal. Vol 5, No. 2: 131-143.
DiStefano, T.D. 2001. Anaerobic Biodegradation of Food Processing Waste and Municipal Solid Waste, Presented at the Solid Waste Association of North America (SWANA) regional meeting. Annapolis, MD.
DiStefano, T.D., Duran, M., Speece, R.E., and Hnatin, M. 2000. Biochemical Methane Potential Analysis to Support Segregated Anaerobic Treatment of Food Processing Wastes. Presented at The Sixteenth International Conference on Solid Waste Technology and Management, December, 2000, Philadelphia, PA.
DiStefano, T.D. 1999. The Effect of Tetrachloroethene on Biological Dechlorination of Vinyl Chloride: Potential Implication for Natural Bioattenuation. Water Research. Vol. 33, No. 7. 1688-1694.
Dudiak, K.A., and T.D.DiStefano, 1997. "Reductive Dechlorination of PCE by a Methanogenic Culture taken from an Aerobic Fluidized-Bed Reactor," Hazardous and Industrial Wastes. Boardman, G. (Ed). Technomic, Lancaster, PA.
DiStefano, T.D. 1995. "Biological Reductive Dechlorination of Chlorinated Ethylenes: Implications for Natural Attenuation and Biostimulation," Hazardous and Industrial Wastes. Sengupta, A.K. (Ed). Technomic, Lancaster, PA.
Tandoi, V., T. DiStefano, P. Bowser et al, 1994. "Reductive Dehalogenation of Chlorinated Ethenes and Halogenated Ethanes by a High-Rate Anaerobic Enrichment Culture," Environ. Sci. Technol. 28:973-979.
DiStefano, T. D., J. M. Gossett and S. H. Zinder. 1992. "Hydrogen as an electron donor for dechlorination of tetrachloroethene by an anaerobic mixed culture," Appl. Environ. Microbiol. 58:3622-3629.
DiStefano, T. D., J. M. Gossett and S. H. Zinder. 1991. "Reductive dechlorination of high concentrations of tetrachloroethene to ethene by an anaerobic enrichment culture in the absence of methanogenesis," Appl. Environ. Microbiol. 57:2287-2292.


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Dr. Grant William Cook III
Teaching Area(s): Music
Title: Professor of Music and Director of Choral Activities
Courses Taught: Concert Choir, Cantus Femina, Coro Inspirare, Choral Conducting and Literature
A Transformative Experience
I started my undergraduate studies in physics and pre-engineering without any notion of being a teacher or a professional musician. Attending a small, private liberal arts institution, however, gave me the opportunity to explore a wide variety of academic disciplines, including music. Singing in my college choir was truly a transformative experience, and I recall saying to myself, "I must figure out how to do this—how to live in this amazing world of choral music." So I guess you could say that music chose me. I am so blessed to have the opportunity to make music with incredible people every day of my life and to be continually surrounded by art and beauty and all that is good and right. It is so wonderful to do what you love and love what you do!
High Honor
In 2002, a choir under my direction was selected by audition to perform at a meeting of the American Choral Directors Association—one of the highest honors of the profession.
Director of Many
I conduct the Mount Union Concert Choir and Cantus Femina (women's chorus), teach coursework in choral conducting and literature and administer the University's choral program. I also serve as the artistic director for the annual University of Mount Union Christmas Festival and organize/develop the Concert Choir's annual spring tour, including an international tour every fourth year. Beyond this I am an active guest conductor and clinician for a variety of high school choral events; this type of work is not only a service to the profession, but one means of recruiting high-quality students to the University.
Teaching Habits
As a teacher, I respect the scholarly nature of the choral rehearsal process and treat each rehearsal as an academic exercise. "Music is a rational undertaking," wrote American conductor Robert Shaw, and "successful performance is the product of reason." To this end, I strive to challenge the collective intellect of each of my choral ensembles. I believe that my choristers are not simply singers, but musicians who sing, and I believe in teaching the fundamentals of choral musicianship, including literacy. Utilizing the solfege system (do, re, me, etc.), choristers under my direction work daily to develop their sight-singing skills, which in turn develops independent musicianship and, by extension, promotes ensemble growth and development. The use of solfege is a new pedagogical approach for the University's choral program and one that has really been embraced by the students.
Best Part of the Job
Making music with my students!
Research Interests
Active as a musicologist, my research has primarily concerned the life and writings of the celebrated American Beethoven scholar Alexander Wheelock Thayer (1817-1897). Since completing my dissertation in 2001, I have actively continued my investigation, building a sizeable collection of Thayeriana, and I aim to be the first scholar to give Thayer full biographical treatment as an American individualist, writer, critic and distinguished biographer. My published research in the area of choral musicology focuses on the Viennese court singer and conductor Ignaz Karl Dirzka (1779-1827), choirmaster for the premiere of Beethoven's Ninth Symphony, and the first complete performance in America of Bach's St. Matthew Passion. My scholarly research has been published in The Choral Scholar, Choral Journal and The Beethoven Journal and presented by invitation at meetings of the American Musicology Society and the Ohio Choral Directors Association.
Cope Music Hall
My favorite building is Cope Music Hall—here art and beauty are created every day!
Interdisciplinary Study
The University of Mount Union permits and actively encourages students from all academic disciplines to participate in the arts. For example, students representing 26 academic majors comprise the two choirs under my direction—these choirs truly represent the University's strong commitment to its liberal arts foundation and mission. As Wendell Berry once wrote, "The thing being made in a university is humanity…. What universities…are mandated to make or help to make is human beings in the fullest sense of those worlds—not just trained workers or knowledgeable citizens but responsible heirs and members of human culture…." The University of Mount Union is fulfilling this important mandate!
Home at Mount Union
When I visited campus for my interview in February 2011, I was immediately struck by the quality of the University's leadership team—from President Giese to Dean Draves to Dr. Patty Boehm, chair of the Department of Music, I sensed a collective commitment to excellence and to the strengthening and development of the University's arts education programs. In addition, I immediately felt at home with the members of the music faculty, who were incredibly welcoming and engaging. Perhaps the most important factor in my decision to come to Mount Union, however, was my interaction with the students, whom I found to be incredibly bright, talented and hungry for choral music.
Getting Involved in the Arts
Something that our wonderful Director of Bands, Jonathan Willis, and I discuss quite frequently is why students should get involved with the arts. There are very few opportunities for students to make music beyond the college years. Once students graduate, enter the workforce, start families and the like, their lives becomes very busy and so often making music becomes less of a priority or simply impossible. Particularly for non-music majors, college ensembles can provide a capstone experience in the arts. Beyond this, participation in the arts provides students the perfect nexus of the heart and brain—the opportunity to develop their intellect and their humanity. After all, Mount Union is a liberal arts institution!
B.M., Vocal Performance and Pedagogy, Heidelberg College
M.M., Choral Conducting, Kent State University
Ph.D., Historical Musicology-Ethnomusicology, Kent State University
Perhaps the most important factor in my decision to come to Mount Union, however, was my interaction with the students, whom I found to be incredibly bright, talented and hungry for choral music.
- If You Could Teach Another Class
- Poetry or philosophy (This will not surprise my students!)
- Favorite Quote
- "I love you, Daddy!" –my daughter, Jane Dieadra Cook (age 9)
- Surprising Fact About Yourself
- The high school I attended in western New York did not have a choral music program—I never really had an opportunity to sing in a choir until I enrolled in college.
- If You Weren't a Professor
- I'd be a librarian/archivist/historian. I love old books and manuscripts and anything related to historical sleuthing.
- Places to Visit
- I would like to visit Trieste, Italy to see the grave of Beethoven's biographer Alexander W. Thayer, whom I have been writing about for more than 15 years.
- Hobbies and Interests
- Spending time with my wife, Susan, and daughter, Jane, at Disney World! Also, I really enjoy tending my flower garden, especially my roses.


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The Gator junior won both of her singles and doubles matches in UF's only dual match last week, as she helped the Gators (18-1) capture the SEC Regular Season Championship outright.
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Seems he obviously failed to do any market research seeing how the biggest gripe is the missing start menu button.
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I always love it when Microsoft advertise Windows 8 on television, and everyone seems to be so happy to have a Windows 8 OS, when in reality everyone is installing a Start Menu program or installing Windows 7.
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I just got /8 upgrade before they raise the price the end of the month. But I run it in a virtual partition. Will probably never use it for real work. It is just to keep up-to-date and being able to talk to the boys and girls on the eightforum.
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I don't see that as a waste should I never run the OS :)
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Well you ARE on the W7 Forum so I' would expect this type of reaction to be fairly typical from W7 users.
On the W8 Forum reactions are a bit different both positive and negative - but most of the negatives are from people who previously used W7. New Windows users don't seem to mind W8 at all.
Actually the new GUI makes a LOT of sense on mobile devices / tablets especially with touch screens -- but for classical desktop applications then it's a bit different.
However I'm sure even the most BIASED W7 user has to agree that touch is pretty terrible in W7 and as for those horrible W7 based windows phones - well even those old handsets look like they came from another long bygone era -- people would almost OFFER to GIVE you a new handset if they saw you with one of those decidedly uncool "clunkers".
The new W8 phones are very good indeed and getting a lot of positive reviews, the W8 tablets are fine too - and people can't wait to see what the new Ms Surface pro will do when it finally appears --by all accounts should be an Ipad killer.
I have to admit I hated the W8 interface at first but on a small light thin ultra book type of laptop with a touch screen it makes a lot of sense.
I don't have too much trouble getting into the desktop --difficulties are grossly exaggerated.
I don't like it though at work (fortunately we are still going from XP ==> W7 so no danger of W8 at work) where there are quite complicated applications with a load of sub options where both a classical desktop menu is needed and also I use the command line a lot to get into servers etc.
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Eastlake Community Church announces their Christmas Special Services and Events in their new facility at 1118 Hendricks Store Road (the old Shoprite building).
Friday, Dec. 24, at 8 p.m. Christmas Eve Service "Candles, Carols and Communion."
Sunday, Dec. 26, at 10 a.m. Combined Worship Service (No Sunday School or Children's Church).
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December 22: Guest Minister Rev. Jeffrey Liddy, Chaplain, Westminister-Canterbury. Guest Organist Rev. Janet Hawkins, Director of Music, Fort Hill United Methodist Church. Guest Instrumentalist Glenn Buck, Saxophone, Lynchburg College.
Lunch will be available at 12:30 p.m. in the Church Fellowship Hall following the service. Suggested donation: $5. Fort Hill United Methodist Church is located at 106 Oakridge Blvd. (corner of Memorial and Oakridge). For more information, contact Fort Hill United Methodist Church Office at 847-1251.
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Starboard Go or ProKids board ?
My 10 year old son (Pretty big fellow of 150cm, for 36 kg and quite strongly built (windsurfing in summer, bouldering/climbing in winter ) is surfing now on inland lake for 12 months and handles a
Bic Techno at the club quite comfortably with a 3,5-4 sail in 2-4 bft winds.
Can beachstart .
I'm looking to buy his first own board and wonder what would be the best option looking for the future :
Buy a ProKids Go or go for a Standard Starboard Go of eg. 111/122 L . I just wonder what importance this difference of volume will have for his relative weight.
It would be his first experience with a no dagger board .
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My daughter (42kg; 156cm) went on a Start, and after a few seasons we baught a Starboard ProKids Flare 72 of 2008 in used condition for about EUR 500.-; I think if your son is strong and very, very ambitious, you should take the ProKids 72, it has enough Volume to carry him through light winds, but also fast and "next level" windsurfing. The looks of the Prokids Flare are like the ones of the professional boards, and they are short and very lightweight.
The kids want to have very good looking, freestyle boards, and these boards (Prokids) are fitting exactly on the young guys up to 50 kg. If he goes only recreational windsurfing, better buy a bigger board.
Your playground for the youngster should be a lagoon, shallow water, where he can cary (not swim!) back if he´s practicing getting reach and learning to jibe fast, learning waterstarts and so on.
But after a few weeks, it should be better than a conventional, low speed "bigboard".
And if the abilities run parallel with the development of body and weight of your son, he should have a superb board for some years..., until you can get him an "adult" one (from 160cm and 50kg plus....).
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realbadbitten on 08/21/2015
Moved in Jan 2015 1st 3 months ok but thereafter not good. Roach and bed bugs infestation crawling into all areas: microwave refrigerator sink pipes! Various sprayings not helping. The bitting synontmous with predatory people stalking and hacking the electrical lines. Haven for witchcraft practices.
Anonymous on 08/21/2015
Moved in Jan 2015 1st 3 months ok but thereafter not good. Roach and bed bugs infestation crawling into all areas: microwave refrigerator sink pipes! Various sprayings not helping. The bitting synontmous with predatory people stalking and hacking the electrical lines. Haven for witchcraft practices.
Anonymous on 01/04/2013
So I just moved in to this place about a 2 months ago and finally got used to the noise and what not. I figured "hey it's not that bad."Then tonight my girlfriend notices a couple bites which causes me to do some investigating and sure enough its beg bugs, killed a couple and caught one in a plastic baggy.
I've heard about all the complaints and thought it might have been blown out of proportion, but no it's spot on. STAY AWAY FROM HERE!!!
Anonymous on 12/03/2012
I used to visit my friend there regularly and even considered at one point moving there since rent was cheap and its convinient for the night life.
As I kept visiting my friend 7th floor I kept getting these weird rashes/bites but didn't make the connection. I finally started paying attention to my surroundings and I started to notice these little critters. What finally convinced me was when I saw a group of Bed Bugs laying on the roll of toilet paper.
I stopped going there completly to a
void bringing any bugs home or into my car and its Horrible that my friend ask that I go visit but I make up an excuse to see them and it even goes as far as not picking them up or having them visit me at my place just to avoid Bed Bugs being brought into my Home (YES ITS THAT BAD!)
At one point I visioned getting a place there where I be able to bring dates back to my apartment after hitting the local bars/clubs imagine the disaster that would have been!
Don't believe management this place does the basic minimum when it comes to everything and half the tenants there are on SSI or General Relief.
Sleepless on 06/15/2012
Ok. 3am No sleep- work night. So we moved in here because it was the only place we could afford. We both have educations and are professionals but a bit down on our luck and hoping to make a new start of things.
We moved in and asked questions about bugs early on. We were told that there had been a fumigation and the problem had been solved. The first month was practically bug free. We purchased additional roach killers and placed them in all the right places. By month three we killed a ro
ach a day either in the bathtub or on the stove. By month six we are now killing half a dozen with only two of five being adults. They come from the walls or something.
Over the roach phobia and learning to live with that, keeping everything as clean as possible to avoid things getting worse.
Bed bugs. We'd been annoyed since month one that they had identified bed bugs in a unit nearby and for precautionary measures would be inspecting our unit. I finally made arrangements to be available. The inspection was a scam. Someone knocks at the door and asks "Do you have bed bugs?" Our answer was No. They take a peak inside. Ok. "well we'll do it anyway." So they spray for bed bugs. I'm all about prevention. Next month one of us starts getting bites with allergic reactions. We chalk it up to mosquitoes and spiders. It gets worse and then it goes away. Tonight i see something on the sleeve of my shirt that looks like a lent and go to flick it and blood squirts. I go to the bathroom to immediately wash my sleeve and see something crawling on my collar...splat more blood. Then I found another on my workbag on the floor. This one gets away. I pull up the corner of the bed sheets and find tow or three babies crawling around. I capture one in a plastic baggy. So much for sleeping tonight. Laundry room is closed. I emptied my work bag and it's soaking in the tub with hot water and soap.
A neighbor said some years ago his wife woke up to a rat on her leg in bed because they'd left the window open. So things could get worse but what a nightmare.
:( It's probably not worth getting the good deal.
Mike on 05/10/2012
All of these claims are more then valid. Management is tied to contracts with the film industry and seem to care nothing about the complaints. This will go on until we all file a class action suite and sue these people for costs of damages mental and physical and all of the rent paid.
My room was good for four months and then became infested with mites, roaches, bed bugs, and spiders, I have at this moment over 100 bites with some causing bruising and can not sleep.
The infestation i
n this building is beyond manageable and the management has a system for dealing with it. Because of my complaints they are evicting me, because my lease is up and they claim I don't qualify to live there anymore.
The owners prey on the disabled and mentally ill who have no choice, and those like me who need to live downtown for work and can't afford a 1K Studio apartment.
These people are criminals and need to pay for their crime.
If you want to be involved in my class action suite email me at [email protected]
We all need justice and this needs to end. I don't care if this is a "landmark". It is more like a prison in Mexico.
Anonymous on 05/08/2012
Without being too specific... I used to live here..
Kept hearing stories but never experienced anything then all of a sudden i found myself getting bitten and every time they came to check they would say it was probably a spider... They NEVER thoroughly checked and I ended up being the one that found each bug every time.
Their pest control people fully dilute the spray so these things never die or go away and they dont assume any responsibility for your unit being infected. They hide behi
nd "we treat the unit" and what happens thereafter isnt our problem.
I endured for almost a year because it was some weeks yes some weeks no until I finally moved out!
DEFINITELY DONT MOVE HERE!!! This place is beyond infested!!! The rent is slightly cheaper but you will end up paying a lot more than you bargain for and losing much much more.
Anonymous on 03/17/2011
Alexandria Hotel on 3/16/11
My roommates and I went to the Mezz Bar on the 2nd floor of the hotel to see a friend's play. We were there maybe an hour and a half, came home and noticed a bed bug crawling around the entry way of our house. At first we had no idea where it came from and frantically searched our entire house to see if we had an infestation. Checked the beds, carpets, furniture, everywhere. We didn't find anything and found it odd that the bug was crawling on the carpet rather th
an hiding somewhere so we retraced our steps and immediately concluded it must've hopped on one of us at the busted old nasty hotel we were just in. Found this website and it validated our theory. I can't believe they let people live here. This place is disgusting and should be condemned!
Angry Aries on 02/12/2011
My Boyfriend and I needed a place badly and we felt so fortunate to easily get into this historic building. I love old Hollywood Glamour so I thought it would be a nice adventure living in this mysterious building. Something in my gut was telling me this was too good to be true. Boy was I right!
Like the other people on these posts have said before..... I never ever EVER EVER thought about a bed bug in my entire life or never knew what it was until now! I work in the food business and I have
to wear long sleeve shirts to cover the lets see um 20 welts on my arms and legs!!!!!!!!!!! Not only do I look like a junkie, I've become extremely obsessed with bed bugs and I have not had a decent amount of sleep since moving in. Management sucks at their job and so far no terminator has come even though they were supposed to be here two days ago. Our mattress isn't even infested yet but time is running out and we are looking for a bed bug free place to live. We are so desperate that we are willing to leave everything behind. No human beings should have to live like this . What disgusts me the most is that they advertise it low income housing and there are people that have to live in these conditions that can't afford to move out! Its wrong and if there is a hell ...all those people in the leasing office are going to burn in it! The ALEXANDRIA IS JOKE!
My boyfriend and I always shake our heads when we walk past the leasing office on our way out and see young students or senior citizens applying. Biggest mistake we ever made moving here!
STAY FAR AWAY!!!!!!!!! Any of the downtown old buildings need to be fumigated properly not this one unit at a time bulls***
Alexis Justman on 07/30/2010
June 2010 #736
This is the third and final time they have treated my unit for bed bugs. I moved out of this nightmare, and would not recommend this place to my worst enemy. I got the bedbugs in November and was so horrified I threw most of my belongings away. Shortly thereafter, they were back and worse than before. The management was so negligent at first, they did not help in "prepping" my unit and complained because I could not do it well enough (their excuse for the bugs recurrence). So a
gain, I cleaned out my unit, threw everything away- books, records, pillows, clothes, shoes, etc. I was NOT reimbursed. They said they would do my dry cleaning, but when I got my pillows and linens back they were soaking wet and there were actual BUGS ON THEM ALIVE.
I am a recent college grad and a theatrical actress living in LA, so I am not rich, but I have standards. I am a human, and management would ignore my phone calls and voicemails until I knocked on their door and spoke to Lamont face to face. He promised to work with me cooperatively and assured me that it was the neighboring units that were refusing to be inspected. They could not barge in there by force, so treating my unit was basically pointless because the bugs were coming in from all directions and extermination was futile.
So why make me throw all my belongings away and spend HUNDREDS on dry cleaning and inconvenience? I couldn't even sleep in my own apartment the last month I was paying rent. The welts were horrendous and painful. Before treatment I slept in garbage bags in the bathtub. NO HUMAN SHOULD HAVE TO LIVE LIKE THIS AND PAY FOR IT.
I lived in this hellhole for 9 months before enough was enough. This is a problem that will never get fixed unless The Alexandria evicts everyone and fogs the entire building. Not going to happen.
Julie on 04/21/2010
I have had two sprayings to no avail. they want to do a 3rd but I was promised the units above and below mine would be inspected bc what is the point if they keep spraying mine and they keep coming in from other apartments. their staff (the men that do the cleaning/inspection) AND my neighbors have both told me they have not been inspected when I was promised over 3 weeks ago that they would be. My unit was fine until this week and they are back. I have bought many sprays, foggers etc to do it m
yself bc clearly what they are doing isnt helping nor are they following thru. I will not spend my entire lease not getting sleep because of this, I will not pay rent for an apartment I can't even enjoy. I have friends coming to visit and I can't even have them stay here for fear they might take bugs home or worse get the welts that I have on my body from them. I even have an airmatress and all my furniture was brand new upon move in, and I refuse to throw it out or someone is paying me for it. this is ridiculous.
Babeface on 03/22/2010
March 22 2010
I live in the Yorkshire Apartment #107 710 South Broadway,LA since 2006,i had no Problems for almost 3 Years,within the last 3 Months the Building has been attacked by a mayor Bedbug infestation.I have had to dispose of much of my property.Still the Prolblem seems to stay. I had the Exterminator spray twice ,no avail. I baught within the last Month over 100 Dollars worth of spray Foggers ,Powders ,STILL they keep coming back.I am at my witts end ,i bought a Airbed ,.Several Mont
hs ago a City Inspector came .walked to the frontdoor,asked everything ok,i said yes not knowing why he was there.He did not inspect anything.I am begining to think that maybe he got payed to pass the Inspection.God forbid if I am right.My Sleep is robbed becouse i have to get dressed like I am going skiing. I cant take it anymore
Management on 01/25/2010
In the U.S, most major metropolitan areas are experiencing a bedbug epidemic. This problem is not unique to low-income housing; bedbugs have been reported in expensive hotels and apartments complexes throughout the nation.
The Alexandria is currently aggressively treating the problem with the consultation of Terminex, one of the leaders in this field.
No expense is being spared and treatment is being provided to anyone who requests it. However it must be noted that tenant cooperation is
critical in order to be successful in eradicating this problem. Historically some tenants have not been cooperative and so management is now taking on a firmer approach in ensuring that all tenants allow access to their unit.
We are committed to providing a bed bug free environment and have already made great strides to this end. The number of complaints we have received regarding this issue has dropped dramatically.
Anonymous on 01/05/2010
I moved out of this hell hole last month. Everything I owned had to be abandoned or treated. I'm now living in a bed bug free environment. Yay! But I still have scars on my legs and arms resulting from bed bugt bites. Shame on the owners/managment of the Alexandria Hotel for falsely advertising their property as "low to moderate income" micro lofts. Nobody, regardless of income, should have to live in the unhealthy, bug infested conditions which prevail at the Alexandria Hotel.
guardian angel on 11/14/2009
the mangagement should accomodate the tenants
they think that the lowly unheard voices live there.
guess what?
do not move in, until the health department of Los Angeles County advises!!
these tenants will no longer be voiceless and faceless once the hotel is sued by these people!
Bitten on 10/30/2009
I am being eaten alive by bedbugs. I have bites and/or scabs on my arms, legs, neck and face. My unit has been treated twice but to no avail. I would never recommend anybody move here.
Alexandria Hotel on 09/14/2009
Horrible infestation on the 8th floor since January of 2009. Management has failed to treat ajoining apartments so the bedbugs have spread to the entire building. My unit was just treated for the 4th time!!!!
Anonymous on 08/25/2009
I have been numerously bitten bad. I live on the 8th floor #812.I've asked for the bug investers to examine the room but said i have no bed bugs.I still keep finding them dead on the floor and some alive.Sept. 30th 2009 is my last month of my lease and i have not slept there since.
I moved out for the first time and im bumed out that i have this issue.Im currently staying at my parents apt. till my lease is up and hoping i could find a new apt.
I have had this issue for a month now.Today's da
te is 8/25/09 The Alexandria Hotel.
Alexandria Hotel on 06/28/2009
8th and 9th Floor have bedbugs
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It's looking like I'm going to be busier than I expected over the coming weeks and perhaps even months, so blogging may be a bit spotty, but I doubt I'll disappear completely (though I do know how).
Jeff VanderMeer's been putting a bunch of good things up on his blog recently. There's Ann VanderMeer's favorite music of 2005 (she knows her music), great news about one of my favorite editors (plus a killer photo), an endorsement of Delany's About Writing (which I told him to read, ha ha!), and one thing that deserves some extended comment...
Jeff writes a fine chronicle of the couple of days he and Ann spent up here in the frozen north with Eric Schaller, Paulette Werger, me, some hedgehogs, a turtle, and some drunk locals. (And despite what Jeff says, we were not the drunk locals. Most of us were quite restrained in our consumption of intoxicating beverages, especially in comparison to the people around us. Oh, and that stuff in the wine glass I'm holding is Belgian beer. The apparently self-satisfied expression on my face comes from my holding my breath while waiting for Jeff to take the picture, because for some reason it took longer than I expected.)
While Jeff details his relations with Eric and Paulette's hedgehogs and turtle, he does not tell the most extraordinary story -- we had to bail him out of jail after he got arrested storming a meercat farm. He let all the meercats go, trying to save them from being turned into fur coats. People don't know about Jeff's staunch advocacy of animal rights. (Just try eating a steak in front of him!) In fact, he was considering having Leviathan 5: Don't Smoke the Bunnies! be published by PETA. Ask him about it.
In other news, Strange Horizons released their first issue of 2006, and it includes a new column I wrote in an attempt to make sure Jay Lake develops an ego. I've been worried about him.
Here are a few old links I collected in my rare forays through the internets over the past weeks:
- Images of the Gods and the Ancients
- Country's Jingoistic Jingles
- Big congratulations to Richard Nash, publisher of Soft Skull Press, for winning this year's Miriam Bass Award for Creativity in Independent Publishing. When I'm Emperor of the World, everybody will have to read at least one Soft Skull book each year.
- Be sure to check out the comments to this post by Dan Green for some good discussion of the publishing world, agents, writers, monoliths, and that sort of thing.
- Dan Wickett of the Emerging Writers Network is offering a great deal on literary magazines: subscribe to three for the price of two, four for the price of three, etc. I've been meaning to resubscribe to Agni and subscribe to Hobart and Absinthe and ... oh, the temptations...


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Note-taking: Paraphrase, Summary, and Direct Quotes
Lesson 2 of 5
Objective: SWBAT demonstrate applied comprehension of note-taking through discussion and hands-on activities for paraphrasing, summarizing, and selecting direct quotes.
My classes are held in 100-minute block sessions every other day. The lesson below outlines activities on three main types of note-taking for college and career readiness. Please view the video in this section for more information.
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Directed Freewriting
Today I explore note-taking with my students through individual work, small-group collaboration, and class discussion.
To draw on student experiences and background knowledge, I ask students to do directed freewriting on a series of questions (Assignment: Directed Freewriting on Notetaking). I use a picture of a baby bobcat (Bobcat is our mascot) when displaying the assignment on my projector since a study by Nittono, Fukushima, Yano, and Moriya (2012) found that students are more productive after focusing on pictures of baby animals.
I circulate as students are writing and read their writing clandestinely. After 10 minutes, I begin circulating again and reading student writing (Student Work: Directed Freewriting) with their knowledge, stopping to talk to students about their note-taking strategies while sharing my own (summarizing, paraphrasing, selecting direct quotes when appropriate).
Collaboration and Debriefing
I tell students that today we will be exploring note-taking since it is a skill they need not only for high school, but for college and career readiness. This year writing across the curriculum is a major focus, and as part of this initiative, I delivered professional development to the entire faculty on note-taking a few weeks ago.
I have adapted the presentation for students, focusing on how they use note-taking in the small-group activity. To begin (PDF: Keynote Presentation on Notetaking), I ask students to get into groups of 3-5 (they know each other fairly well and stay focused in groups) and choose a recorder to write their answers to the following discussion questions on Slide Two:
- What is your definition of note-taking?
- How do you use note-taking?
- What are your strengths in note-taking? Weaknesses?
I tell students to use their directed freewriting as a springboard for discussion and remind them that we will debrief as a class with each group sharing answers in the all-class setting. This discussion engages students; I find them involved in fruitful discussion, talking about specific ways they use notes in content area classes.
Using notes taken during the discussion, each group shares its answers (Student Work: Small-Group Collaboration). All group responses are below in italics.
- What is your definition of note-taking? Writing the main idea and important facts of a lesson to be reassessed later. Writing down key information. Summarizing information to be able to study or understand. Gathering important details from the information that is given. Writing down key points in a section.
- How do you use note-taking? We use notes as we're writing them to help process the information, but we don't really use them to study. Use it to remind me what I learned and it helps us study. Used to summarize given information to be able to review before a test. By jotting down important details and use it to study for tests and quizzes. To study for test and be able to understand the lesson.
- What are your strengths in note-taking? We are organized and write neatly. Looking back on the notes and highlighting key terms. Being able to condense the information said. Organized set up and writing. Organization and the ability to have the notes neat.
- Weaknesses? One group member says he writes very slowly. Writing too much, at first writing detailed notes then getting lazy and stop taking good notes. Tend to fall behind, not catching all information. We write everything down and sometimes don't even know what we're writing because we're writing so fast and not understanding it. Not concentrating during lecture and also not being able to paraphrase.
When I ask students to identify one similarity among answers, they come to consensus: When taking notes, most students write too much or cannot follow what they are writing. I tell them that today we will explore three types of note-taking to help them improve their skills:
- Paraphrasing: writing the text (spoken or written) in your own words
- Summarizing: writing a synopsis of the text, including main points
- Selecting Direct Quotes: writing exact wording from the text when no rewording will do the original text justice.
Before moving on, I give students a comical brain break by sharing and explaining Slide Three, which shows a funny graphic about six different types of note-taking (the boring, the sharpie, the graphical, the nerd, the lazy, the genius).
I review the three types of note-taking on Slide Five of the presentation (PDF: Keynote Presentation on Notetaking):
- Paraphrasing: writing the text in your own words (nearly identical in meaning, about the same length as the original)
- Summarizing: writing the text in a shortened form (presents only the most important ideas of the passage)
- Selecting Direct Quotes: writing exact wording from the text when no rewording will do the original text justice.
I explain that we are going to engage in hands-on activities to review and/or provide students with additional practice on three commonly used types of note-taking. I let them know that even though they are seated in groups, these are individual activities. However, time may permit sharing work in their small groups. I use the short passage entitled, "The Heart" (Handout: The Heart) from Great Source Education Services (1999) because short, informational pieces are good for guided practice activities. Please refer to the Procedures Handout for additional information (Procedures: Paraphrasing, Summarizing, Direct Quotes Activities)(Procedures: Paraphrasing, Summarizing, Direct Quotes Activities - Word).
Due to time constraints, I stop for a lesson check point and ask students to consider the work we did today and the work completed in the hands-on activities (Student Work: Note-taking Activities) if they have questions on the three types of note-taking. Students have no questions, but I ask them to address any in their ticket out.
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Ticket Out
I go to Slide Ten, the last slide in the presentation (PDF: Keynote Presentation on Note-taking), and ask students to consider what we have done today and what they have learned. I explain that as a group they are to complete one ticket out (Student Work: Ticket Out on Note-taking):
- As a group, write a summary of what you learned today.
- List any questions you have about note-taking.
Suprisingly enough, no students have questions on note-taking in their tickets out. I will be able to further assess their knowledge as we move forward with our literary study and begin to use paraphrasing, summarizing, and selecting direct quotes more often as we encounter increasingly complex texts.